Display board and clip



. Jan, 23, 1923,

1,443,169.. F. A. CONRAD.

DISPLAY BOARD AND CL lP. FILED MAY 2'. 192!- it Patented Jan. 23, 1923.

A CORPORATION or ILLINOIS.

msPLiiY Beam Ann cm.

- Application may 2,

To all w ham it may concern.-

Be -11) known that I, Fnnnnniok Con- nAn,.a citizen or theUnited States, residing holding washers,

at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Display Boards and Clips, of which the following is a "speciit is best adapted to receive and hold the especial clip whlch in cooperation therewith .may be secured in "place by use oi a single rivet and,.fturthermore, the relative thinness of the board permits the use of standard rivets that are cheap in price. 1

In the maintenance of automobiles, and especially the engines associated therewith, a great variety of gaskets, washers, disks and strips, usually of felt, cork, etc., are required from time to time. It'is convenient for the workman and salesman, and. advise ble from an advertising standpoint, to have the supply of such devices mounted upon a display board from which they may quickly be taken as they are needed. It is necessary, however, to provide a holding means or clip that will securely hold these devices in place .until.

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they are intentionally re- Display boards of this general character have heretofore been. in use, but in such 40 boards the means for holding the gaskets,

etc, in place have been of such character that they require too much time and trouble to remove the devices from the board or, on the other hand, in some boards the devices have been so insecurely held in place that a passe-rby would frequently dislodge a number of them by mere contact therewitln v Anotherobject of the invention is to provide a holding clip, of especial construction, which is not only most excellently well adapted to hold gaskets, washers, etc, of a yielding nature, such as used on boards of this type and which has capacity to contain a number of them, but it affords the greatest convenience in loading the clips, and,

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furthermore, it cooperates with the more or less yielding board, such as building board,

*rnnnnnionn. oonniinfoncnioneo, ILLINOIS, AssIeNon "r0; TH Ii D M-N as an auxiliary means to hold the clip in place and prevent it from being rotated about the single rivet used to hold it on the board. I 'N -Furthermore, the meansof fastening the clip to-the board contributes as a means for preserving and maintainingits elasticity.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 shows a board containing a number of clips holding washers, gaskets, strips,

etc, thereon.

Fig.1 2 shows a side elevation of the tempered steel clipready to be attached to the board;

Fig. Sshows the changed form of the clip resulting-from the manner of its attachment to the board showing several devices between its substantially parallel prongs.

Fig. l is an end elevation of theclip. In all the views the same reference characters are used to designate similar parts.

'The board 5 upon which the clips are mounted is preferably three ply building board, more orless yielding on its face by application of some pressure. The clips 6 when made and tempered are in shape when finished as theyappear in Fig. 2 with the prongs 7 and 8 flaring outweirdly, and with a hump 9 in the yoke that joins the prongs.

The hump 9 is perforated for a rivet 10. When the clip is to be applied to the board, a rivet is placed in the perforation of the hump 9 and pressure is applied to set the rivet, at the same time the hump is thereby straightened out, or disappears, as shown in ig. 3. l

The curved portio-ns or knees 11, where the yoke joins the prongs, sink into the contacting surface of the board. these knees of the clip into the board prevents the clip from being rotated. Straightening the hump puts a tension on the rivet and prevents the clip from becoming loose, and straightening the hump draws the prongs 7 and 8 into parallel positions to more intimately engage the parts 12 that are contained between them.

The prongs are bent in. near their ends, at 13, to contact the distance between them at this point to more securely hold the fabrics and they are putturned at 14 tocontribute The. sinking of to the ease with whieh the clips can be loaded.

To quickly load a clip, as many of the gaskets, or the like, as the clip is to hold, are piled one upon another and the inner surface of the pile is brought into contact with the outwardly extending parts i lthen pressure is applied to the pile whereupon the prongs will separate to admit the pile and then sprin back as shown in. Fig.

hen a single laminae is required it is pulled outwardly, the clips will release it without disturbing the. others contained therein.

Bending the knees 11 to draw the prongs 7 and 8 inwardly produces an elastic tension on the prongs without setting the nietal; tieity.

Having described my invention what elaiin as new and desire to seeure hy Letters Patent, is:-

A clip comprising; two resilient outwzn'dly extending prongs and a connecting yoke formed into an inturned hump, the main body parts of the prongs being straight, the ends thereof each extending inwardly then outwardly into planes parallel with the main parts out the prongs and thereheyond whereby to engage and retain an ohjei-t on the inside and on the outside of the clip.

In testimony whereof I hereunto Hlhserihed my name.

FREDERICK A. CONRAD.

consequently they retain their elas- 

